jeffcrom Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Last night's blues 45s: Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown) McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon) These two are pretty late in the day for what they are: down-home blues singles directed at a regional African-American audience. They're both from around 1960. When I found the Bluestown single in a stack of 45s some years ago, I had no idea what it was, but there was no way I wasn't going to buy a record on the Bluestown label by someone named Alabama Watson. "Cost Time" is the producer's mishearing of "Hard Times" - Watson has a pretty thick accent. Baby Tate - See What You Done Done/Late in the Evening (Trix) Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread for Her Husband/Tired of Living a Bachelor (Trix) John T. Samples - Daddy Double Do Love You EP (Documentary Arts) Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie) All of these were directed, I guess, to the "collectors" market. Tate was from South Carolina, Dunn from Georgia, and Smith from the Mississippi Delta - he's one of my favorite bluesmen. The Samples EP is interesting - the only recordings of a Texas songster, very late in his life. On to Chicago: Snooky Pryor - Someone to Love Me/Judgement Day (Vee-Jay) Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Every Day I Have the Blues (Enjoy) Taildragger - My Head is Bald/So Ezee (Leric) Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Blues/I Better Go Now (Chess) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 (edited) Last night's blues 45s: Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown) McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon) These two are pretty late in the day for what they are: down-home blues singles directed at a regional African-American audience. They're both from around 1960. When I found the Bluestown single in a stack of 45s some years ago, I had no idea what it was, but there was no way I wasn't going to buy a record on the Bluestown label by someone named Alabama Watson. "Cost Time" is the producer's mishearing of "Hard Times" - Watson has a pretty thick accent. Baby Tate - See What You Done Done/Late in the Evening (Trix) Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread for Her Husband/Tired of Living a Bachelor (Trix) John T. Samples - Daddy Double Do Love You EP (Documentary Arts) Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie) All of these were directed, I guess, to the "collectors" market. Tate was from South Carolina, Dunn from Georgia, and Smith from the Mississippi Delta - he's one of my favorite bluesmen. The Samples EP is interesting - the only recordings of a Texas songster, very late in his life. On to Chicago: Snooky Pryor - Someone to Love Me/Judgement Day (Vee-Jay) Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Every Day I Have the Blues (Enjoy) Taildragger - My Head is Bald/So Ezee (Leric) Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Blues/I Better Go Now (Chess) Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know. Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's. Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia. edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording. Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording. The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff. Edited October 19, 2013 by paul secor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Last night's blues 45s: Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown) McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon) These two are pretty late in the day for what they are: down-home blues singles directed at a regional African-American audience. They're both from around 1960. When I found the Bluestown single in a stack of 45s some years ago, I had no idea what it was, but there was no way I wasn't going to buy a record on the Bluestown label by someone named Alabama Watson. "Cost Time" is the producer's mishearing of "Hard Times" - Watson has a pretty thick accent. Baby Tate - See What You Done Done/Late in the Evening (Trix) Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread for Her Husband/Tired of Living a Bachelor (Trix) John T. Samples - Daddy Double Do Love You EP (Documentary Arts) Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie) All of these were directed, I guess, to the "collectors" market. Tate was from South Carolina, Dunn from Georgia, and Smith from the Mississippi Delta - he's one of my favorite bluesmen. The Samples EP is interesting - the only recordings of a Texas songster, very late in his life. On to Chicago: Snooky Pryor - Someone to Love Me/Judgement Day (Vee-Jay) Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Every Day I Have the Blues (Enjoy) Taildragger - My Head is Bald/So Ezee (Leric) Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Blues/I Better Go Now (Chess) Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know. Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's. Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia. edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording. Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording. The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff. Coo lummy! Todays miscellaneous collection of vinyl includes the LP that I've had longest (since '65) James Brown - Grits and soul - Smash (mono) Dizzy Gillespie - Bahiana - Pablo (Polydor UK) Lynn Hope - Tenderly - Imperial Sly Dunbar - Sly-go-ville - Taxi (Island UK) now Donald Vails Choraleers - Yesterday, today, forever - Sound of Gospel Fans of George Clinton's bands will wish to be informed that Gary Shider is on guitar. Very Detroit production by Armen Boladian, who owned Sound of Gospel, Eastbound & Westbound & Watts Club Mozambique. The Choraleers are a Detroit choir. Here's track 1 side 1 - 'When we all get to heaven' with THE most splendid performance by a gospel coloratura soprano I've ever heard - Delores Taylor-Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9OpoLfk7E MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepak Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama (stereo Van Gelder) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 Johnny Dyani, African Bass (Red). Nice album of solos and duos with Clifford Jarvis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepak Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Old and New Dreams - S/T (nice version of Lonely Woman) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 (edited) Last night's blues 45s: Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown) McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon) Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know. Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's. Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia. edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording. Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording. The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff. Wow- thanks for the info. I had always assumed that Bluestown was a little Southern label. I knew that Trix was Pete Lowry's label. I've got some of his CDs and LPs, but I think it's cool that he also issued blues singles. Coo lummy! I heard that, Bubba! (Which is, I think, the way we say the same thing down here.) Edited October 20, 2013 by jeffcrom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 I love these lps Flora did for Milestone. Sounds so good tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homefromtheforest Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Miles Davis "four and more" (USA Columbia 2-eye) Embryo "embryo's rache" (Germany, united artists) Stan Tracey "free an one" (UK, Columbia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Lots of vinyl this afternoon. Aretha - I never loved a man the way I love you - Atlantic (Canada) Georgia Mass Choir - Yes, he can - Savoy Then a bunch of Fela Authority stealing - Kalakuta (orig, complete with pressing fault for which Fela apologised on the sleeve and Young African Pioneers newspaper) Gentleman - EMI Nigeria (Creole UK) Confusion - EMI Nigeria (EMI UK) Coffin for head of state - Kalakuta (French edition, but you can't tell which firm was responsible) S E Rogie - Palm wine guitar music - Rogiphone (Cooking Vinyl UK) MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepak Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Bud Powell - Verve 57 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Bob Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 The Four Brothers . . . Together Again! Vik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Bob Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 (edited) The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus Bethlehem BCP 65 Edited October 21, 2013 by Cactus Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Bob Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi Verve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uli Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomatamot Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 David Sanchez - Five Track Sampler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepak Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Clifford Brown, Max Roach - Live at the Bee Hive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 This evening's vinyl Slim & the Supreme Angels - Why was I born (not the Torme song ) - Nashboro Rev Isaac Douglas & the Savannah Community Choir - Stand up for Jesus - Creed twofer MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 Pat Martino 'El Hombre' (OJC) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uli Posted October 22, 2013 Report Share Posted October 22, 2013 Buster Williams something more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imeanyou Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 Prince Lasha/Sonny Simmons 'The Cry' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 One of the greatest jazz records of the '60s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imeanyou Posted October 23, 2013 Report Share Posted October 23, 2013 One of the greatest jazz records of the '60s. No argument from me. Nice clean King Records pressing, sounds fabulous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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